Andrew Walker, Nikki DeLoach and More Reveal the Hallmark Movie Sequels They Are Down to Make

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Andrew Walker, Nikki DeLoach and More Reveal the Hallmark Movie Sequels They Are Down to Make

It’s beginning to look a lot like Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas! Since some stars have been part of the network’s holiday programming for more than a decade, Us Weekly is rounding up potential sequels for Andrew Walker, Nikki DeLoach, Aimee Teegarden and more to revisit. Both DeLoach and Teegarden told Us that they are down to work with Walker again. “They’re all so wonderful and special in their own right. The one that I did last year is coming to mind — the one that I did with Andrew Walker. It was really fun. And it was really about this family and found family,” the Friday Night Lights alum exclusively told Us about 2021’s My Christmas Family Tree at Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas red carpet event at Radio City Music Hall last month. “I would love to see what they would do with a sequel.” DeLoach, meanwhile, has a pitch ready to revisit 2016’s A Dream of Christmas, which followed her character, Penny, making a wish to be single again amid a lull in her marriage to Walker’s Stuart. “I want to do one with them 10 years later — they have three kids. They are in that place in their lives where their kids have taken over everything, they have nothing left to give for themselves. The romance is gone. And then the guy makes the wish,” the actress explained. “So he goes on the journey and has to find his way back to me and my family.” Walker also named the A Dream of Christmas when asked the same question. “I’m a dad now, it hits differently. I wasn't a father at that time,” he said, referring to sons Wes and Wolf with wife Cassandra Walker. The actor and DeLoach have worked together several times over the years, also teaming up for 2017’s The Perfect Catch and 2020’s Sweet Autumn. Most recently, they debuted Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate in April. When asked whether the mystery films could become a franchise, DeLoach gave Us a wink. For now, however, she’s gearing up for the release of The Gift of Peace with Brennan Elliott. “It is the most emotional movie I've ever done for Hallmark. A love story is not the A-story line. It is about a group of people that are in a grief support group and they're all dealing with differing levels of grief — some seven years and some weeks,” she explained. “My character is two years into the loss of her husband and grieving him, very stuck — can't move forward in her work, in life, nothing. And so, a friend encourages her to go to this grief support group. She reluctantly goes and what she finds — which is ironic, but also not because God — what she finds is that by sharing your story, by allowing someone else to help you carry your grief, that's where the healing is. I lost my dad last year in July, my North Star. And I came into this movie, very stuck, and not really knowing how to move forward. I couldn't find the joy I couldn't find happiness. I just felt like I was kind of in quicksand all the time. And this movie, playing this character, sitting around and just sharing stories off screen on screen, I came out of this movie seeing the light at the end, finding the hope, knowing I'm never going to not be in grief, but now I have some people that are going to help me carry this thing. And it was very healing.” Walker, for his part, can be seen in two new Christmas movies this year — Maple Valley Christmas and Three Wise Men and a Baby. He gushed to Us about the latter. “This is probably one of the best scripts I've ever read. And it just so happens that Paul [Campbell], being a friend, being a guy that I've known in the industry and wanted to work with him for so many years [wrote it]. I’m fortunate enough to be a part of the story and Kimberly, his writing partner — really the brains behind the operation here but he's the looks,” Walker quipped during the joint interview with Campbell. “This is really a special film and we're excited to see how the fans respond to it.” Campbell admitted that he, Walker and Tyler Hynes felt “so much pressure” to make a movie for the fans of the trio to enjoy. “Genuinely, [we felt] so much pressure to deliver — I feel like we did. I'm just gonna say it!” the actor and co-writer, declared. Scroll through for more:

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Andrew Walker, Nikki DeLoach and More Reveal the Hallmark Movie Sequels They Are Down to Make

It’s beginning to look a lot like Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas! Since some stars have been part of the network’s holiday programming for more than a decade, Us Weekly is rounding up potential sequels for Andrew Walker, Nikki DeLoach, Aimee Teegarden and more to revisit. Both DeLoach and Teegarden told Us that they are down to work with Walker again. “They’re all so wonderful and special in their own right. The one that I did last year is coming to mind — the one that I did with Andrew Walker. It was really fun. And it was really about this family and found family,” the Friday Night Lights alum exclusively told Us about 2021’s My Christmas Family Tree at Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas red carpet event at Radio City Music Hall last month. “I would love to see what they would do with a sequel.” DeLoach, meanwhile, has a pitch ready to revisit 2016’s A Dream of Christmas, which followed her character, Penny, making a wish to be single again amid a lull in her marriage to Walker’s Stuart. “I want to do one with them 10 years later — they have three kids. They are in that place in their lives where their kids have taken over everything, they have nothing left to give for themselves. The romance is gone. And then the guy makes the wish,” the actress explained. “So he goes on the journey and has to find his way back to me and my family.” Walker also named the A Dream of Christmas when asked the same question. “I’m a dad now, it hits differently. I wasn't a father at that time,” he said, referring to sons Wes and Wolf with wife Cassandra Walker. The actor and DeLoach have worked together several times over the years, also teaming up for 2017’s The Perfect Catch and 2020’s Sweet Autumn. Most recently, they debuted Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate in April. When asked whether the mystery films could become a franchise, DeLoach gave Us a wink. For now, however, she’s gearing up for the release of The Gift of Peace with Brennan Elliott. “It is the most emotional movie I've ever done for Hallmark. A love story is not the A-story line. It is about a group of people that are in a grief support group and they're all dealing with differing levels of grief — some seven years and some weeks,” she explained. “My character is two years into the loss of her husband and grieving him, very stuck — can't move forward in her work, in life, nothing. And so, a friend encourages her to go to this grief support group. She reluctantly goes and what she finds — which is ironic, but also not because God — what she finds is that by sharing your story, by allowing someone else to help you carry your grief, that's where the healing is. I lost my dad last year in July, my North Star. And I came into this movie, very stuck, and not really knowing how to move forward. I couldn't find the joy I couldn't find happiness. I just felt like I was kind of in quicksand all the time. And this movie, playing this character, sitting around and just sharing stories off screen on screen, I came out of this movie seeing the light at the end, finding the hope, knowing I'm never going to not be in grief, but now I have some people that are going to help me carry this thing. And it was very healing.” Walker, for his part, can be seen in two new Christmas movies this year — Maple Valley Christmas and Three Wise Men and a Baby. He gushed to Us about the latter. “This is probably one of the best scripts I've ever read. And it just so happens that Paul [Campbell], being a friend, being a guy that I've known in the industry and wanted to work with him for so many years [wrote it]. I’m fortunate enough to be a part of the story and Kimberly, his writing partner — really the brains behind the operation here but he's the looks,” Walker quipped during the joint interview with Campbell. “This is really a special film and we're excited to see how the fans respond to it.” Campbell admitted that he, Walker and Tyler Hynes felt “so much pressure” to make a movie for the fans of the trio to enjoy. “Genuinely, [we felt] so much pressure to deliver — I feel like we did. I'm just gonna say it!” the actor and co-writer, declared. Scroll through for more:

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Aimee Teegarden: 'My Christmas Family Tree'

“They’re all so wonderful and special in their own right. The one that I did last year is coming to mind — the one that I did with Andrew Walker. It was really fun. And it was really about this family and found family,” the Christmas Class Reunion star told Us, agreeing that the 2021 film had more twists than a classic Hallmark movie. “I would love to see what they would do with a sequel.”

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Brant Daugherty: '#Xmas'

“My costar Clare Bowen, she's incredible. … She’s a lovely actress,” the Pretty Little Liars alum said.

When asked about a follow-up to his 2018 movie Mingle All the Way, Daugherty feared it had been too long. “Has it been too long? … No? OK, let’s do Mingle All the Way again!” he declared.

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Jonathan Bennett and George Krissa: 'The Holiday Sitter'

“We would love to do a sequel to The Holiday Sitter because I think it's gonna be really fun for the Hallmark audience to see two men fall in love for the first time. We're gonna see the first gay-led Christmas rom-com [on the network],” the Mean Girls star told Us, with his costar by his side. “So you're seeing two guys fall in love with the holidays. And I think the audience will fall in love with Jason and Sam and really want to follow their journey, like ‘OK, so they met and they fall in love what happens next?’ So I would love to do a sequel to The Holiday Sitter so we could tell the story of what happens next.”

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Nikki DeLoach: 'A Dream of Christmas'

“A Dream of Christmas with Andrew Walker. I want to do one with them 10 years later — they have three kids. They are in that place in their lives where their kids have taken over everything, they have nothing left to give for themselves. The romance is gone. And then the guy makes the wish,” the Gift of Peace star said. “So he goes on the journey and has to find his way back to me and my family.”

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Taylor Cole: 'Christmas in Homestead'

“Christmas in Homestead was one of my favorites with Michael Rady. He was amazing,” the Long Lost Christmas star said of the 2016 film. “It was a really sweet story.”

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Paul Campbell: 'Window Wonderland'

“I would go all the way back to Window Wonderland, the first movie I ever did [with Hallmark]. I think there’s a fun sequel in there somewhere,” the actor told Us, referring to the 2013 film. “[And] Three Wise Men and a Baby — I would do it again in a heartbeat.”

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Andrew Walker: 'A Dream of Christmas'

“A Dream of Christmas because I'm a dad now, it hits differently. I wasn't a father at that time,” the actor said, before agreeing with Campbell about already wanting to plan a sequel to their 2022 film.

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Rachel Boston: 'A Rose for Christmas,' 'Angel Falls'

“I have so much fun making these movies. I did make one called A Rose for Christmas that was about the Rose Bowl and that led to some amazing opportunities in my real life too,” the A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe star said, referring to the 2017 movie. “I got to see Coldplay at the Rose Bowl because I had made this movie. … And Christmas in Angel Falls was a film I made years ago that I really love. So there’s a lot that I would love to revisit.”

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Jaicy Elliot and Ryan Rottman: 'My Southern Family Christmas'

“This one. It’s called the Shepherds,” the actor said of a potential follow-up to their 2022 movie.

Elliot interjected, “He keeps talking about it! … He’s pitching it. We’re traveling around the world, right?”

“We’re traveling around the world. So it’s fun because then we could go to, like, Rome and Paris and shoot in cool locations,” he concluded.

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Alison Sweeney: 'Good Morning Christmas!'

“I really loved working with Marc Blucas. We did a really funny play on, you know, morning talk show hosts,” the Magical Christmas Village star said. “It would be really fun to pick up somehow, like, maybe they're fighting again or some twist on that. They would be fun.”

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Niall Matter: 'Frozen in Love'

“I played a hockey player, and I would love to go back and play that character again,” the When I Think of Christmas star said. “I had a great time on that. And Rachael Leigh Cook was like — oh, she's so good.’”

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Ryan Paevey: 'Christmas At the Plaza,' 'A Timeless Christmas'

“Selfishly, I would say the one that I did before the one I just finished because we filmed in Hawaii — Two Tickets to Paradise with Ashley Williams, who is hilarious, awesome [and] super, super nice. I got to surf in it, we got to do activities,” the A Fabled Holiday actor said. “In terms of holiday stuff, Ron Oliver and I have not worked together in a while and we’re both kind of miffed about it. We did Christmas At the Plaza and A Timeless Christmas together — either of those."

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Brennan Elliott: 'Love You Like Christmas'

“Love You Like Christmas was my first Christmas movie and that was a good one. I thought went well. This one too,” he said, referring to The Gift of Peace. “This has elements that could be a sequel. I get an opportunity to work with some of the best actresses on earth, in my opinion. They're great people, great actresses. … All of them could be a sequel, but I will say this: there are certain movies that are special. All of them are special or different reasons, this one’s up there.”